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Update on U.S. Web Search Market–Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, & Time Warner

January 16, 2007 at 10:59 am Robert J. Lackie

In this morning’s USA Today Tech section, a short article was written about the U.S. search market from comScore Networks, showing that in December 2006,…

* Google sites were ranked as #1 with 47.3% of U.S. search market
* Yahoo sites as #2 with 28.5%
* Microsoft sites as #3 with 10.5%
* Ask Network as #4 with 5.4%

Also interesting from the article…

* “An estimated 6.7 billion searches were conducted by U.S. Web users in December, up 1% from November.”

“The number of U.S. Web search queries has grown 30% since December of 2005, comScore said.

Go to the actual January 15, 2007 press release of comScore Networks survey cited for some more detail, which also lists…

* Time Warner Network as #5 with 4.9% of the U.S search market,

and it states there that “Google Sites led the pack with 3.2 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (1.9 billion), MSN-Microsoft (713 million), Ask Network (363 million), and Time Warner Network (335 million).”

Entry filed under: Search Tools. Tags: Ask, Google, MSN, rank, Time Warner, Yahoo.